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A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that prevented the insertion of literature denying a genocide against Armenians into a state school curriculum, AP reports.
The Armenian Assembly of America said the ruling “marks a major defeat” for a 2005 lawsuit brought by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, or ATAA.
A lower court in December 2009 dismissed the lawsuit brought by ATAA, which appealed the decision in June of the same year.
The appeals court said Wednesday that the Guide on Armenian Genocide instruction “fit into the curriculum classification … [and] that law would not allow the genocide denial actions that the plaintiffs sought.”
The ruling “sends a clear message to Turkey and its revisionist allies that history cannot be rewritten to further Ankara’s state-sponsored denial campaign,” said Armenian Assembly Board of Trustees Chair Hirair Hovnanian.